Adams



W.,A. ADAMS.

MOVING PICTURE TOY.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-6. 1918'.

1 ,3 1 5,898 Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ymAdfl/m Q MEM- M r ATTORNEYS STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLI M}. ADAMS, on NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF r0 WILLIAM T.

PETTY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

' MOVING-PICTURE TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

Application filed August e, 1918. Serial No. 248,599.

To 1177 u'lzum it may concern:

lie it known that IQlVJLLIAn A. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Man-- hattan'. in the county and State of New York. have invented anew and Improved Moving-Picture Toy, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has-in view are: to furnish an amusement device adapted to have a portion'thercof renewed from time to time to obtain a variety of effects; to provide a device adapted to receive a variety of sets of pictures serially progressive for serial exposure in simulation of moving pictures; to. produce a machine of the character mentioned at reduced cost; and to obtain the effect of rapid acting obscuration shutters without employing the same.

Drawings.

of said pictures.

Description.

The present machine is employed principally as an adjunct to a soliciting enterprise. and in particular as an adjunct to an enterprise for soliciting subscribers to publications. such as the daily newspapers or other periodicals.

The method of using the herein disclosed machine which has been adopted, is to furnish gratis machines such as herein described, to subscribers, thereby enabling the subscriber to collect the pictures printed in the form as indicated in Fig. 4; of the drawings, the pictures 'bein published in full or part sheet form in t .e paper for Which subscription is solicited.

The machine has preferably forty-two panels or picture holders. The series of pictures are therefore arranged to contain forty-two separate pictures or a number of series, each series consisting of an even division of the total number, forty-two, such, for instance, as two series of twenty-one each. It is evident that if these pictures areprinted singly in each issue of the paper or, in other number, the interest in the paper will be sustained in part thereby. These pictures are designed to be cut from the paper and when so cut to be placed in the panels 10.

The panels 10 are preferably constructed of suitalble sheet metal. The blanks as shown in Fig. 5, have extensions 11, which are turned over in parallel relation to the body of the panels to form runways or guides for retaining the pictures 12. Each panel has a lip 13, which extends at one side and slightly out of the plane of the body of the panel to aid in inserting the corresponds. The pictures 12 have each an index numeral as may be seen by reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings, and at the lower right-hand corner of each of the pictures 12.

Each blank as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, has integrally connected therewith, by means of strips 14, a strip 15, which is rolled or shaped to form a shaft 16 as seen in Figs. 2 and 3.01 the drawings. The ends of the shaft 16 are mounted in channels formed in a drum 1?, adjacent the periphery thereof, the channels referred to being annular and formed by the int-urned flanges 18 of the heads of the drum 17 and the outturned flanges 19 of the spool 20 of the drum 17. The drum 17 is fixedly mounted on a shaft 21, whereof forms the crank 22 by which the drum and the various panels connected therewith may be rotated. The shaft 21 is mounted in bearings formed in the box-like case 23, a reinforcin strip '24, and journal blocks 25, being atta hed to thesald case to hold the drum 17 centrally disposed in the an extension case 23 and to strengthen the structure. The case 23 has a detachable cover 26,

, which cover has a peep-hole 27 in the upper side thereof, and a light aperture 28 in one of the end sides thereof. Adjacent the light aperture, is a yielding resilient intercepter 29. The interceptor 29 serves to arrest the various panels 10, so that the uppermost panel of the arrested group will lie in horizontal position substantially as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawilws. The depressed end of the intercepter 29 from which the panels escape the intercepter serially, is elongated to correspond with. the edge of a-resilient de tent 30, mounted in the cover 26. As each panel 10 is drawn from engagement with the detent 30, a corresponding panel is drawn from engagement with the intercepter29. As each panel passes from engagement with the detent 30, it is snapped past the detent and rapidly falls to the horizontal position on top of the accumulated panels held by the interceptor 29.

When the various panels 10 have been equipped with the serial pictures, the operation of the machine consists in turning the drum 1?, with any degree of rapidity and by means of the crank \Vhile the drum is being thus rotated, the casing 23 is held in horizontal position so that the person for whose amusement the machine is employed, may gaze upon the picture through the peep-hole 27. The result of the rotation of the drum17 is that the various pictures 12 are brought to view in the horizontal position shown in Fig. 2, and at the top of the group of panels held by the intercepter 29. As these pictures are developed progressively to illustrate a series of actions, the effect is that produced by the so-called kinetoscope or moving-picture projecting machines.

When the machine is used in the manner above outlined as an adjunct to the subscription of papers, it will be understood that of the panels. The old pictures are removed and retained for further use.

From the above, it will be seen that the maclnne may be employed to afford amusement, the capacity for aitording the amnsement enlarging as the number of series of pictures published are increased.

' Claims.

1. A picture exhibiting toy comprising; a casing and a rotatable drum, a picture panel consisting of a sheet metal blank provided with a strip, a pintle shaft formed for the sheet metal blank by rolling the strip and said shaft journaled in the rotatable drum.

2. A picture exhibiting toy comprising; a casing and a rotatable drain, a picture panel consisting of a sheet metal blank provided with a strip, a pintle shaft formed for the sheet metal blank by rolling the strip and said shaft journaled in the rotatable drum, and the edges of the heet metal blank turned down to form a clamp to receive a picture.

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